Means for leveling and lining spinning frames



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A. M. GUILLET MEANS FOR LEVELING AND LINING SPINNING FRAMES l'filed April. 1926 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 1 43 V I r i ke 47 1 fl/ZGuillel Patented Feb, 1, 1927.

UNITED STATE ALBERT M. GUILLEIOF CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA.

MEANS ,FOR LEVELING,A1 TD ,LINING SPINNING FRAMES.

Application filed April 1, 1926. Serial No. 99,128.

This invention relates tothe art of lining up and leveling the frames of machines such as the horizontal elements of twisting and winding machines, and embodies certain improvements in the construction for this purpose illustrated and claimed in my former Patent #1581552, granted on the S'lstday of March, .1925, on rail gauges tor spinning "frames.

In this patent I disclose a leveling and lining-up device including a pair of clamps adapted tobe disposed over the, roll supporting beam and the thread 'boardo'f afspinning machine, one of these clamps carrying uponit a roll upon which waswound a wire. The other clamp was provided with means for engaging and anchoring .the opposite end of the wire from the reel, the idea being to stretch this wire along the beam from end to end thereof, then turn the reel in the reverse direction until the wire was absolutely taut, and then gauge any depression or undue elevation of any portion of the rail by this wire, it being obviousthat the wire, it it was held inithe same spaced, relation from the beam at its opposite ends, would SllOW any horizontal deviation in the. beam. in connection with this wire Ialso inithis patent disclosed a gauge comprising a block formed witha vertical series of graduations 'which was movable along' the beam and whereby any undue depression or elevation of the beam relative to the wire at any one points could be readily determined. This apparatus, while it was effective for the pur pose of leveling the beam, could not be used for the purpose of liningnp the ,beam or like parts. that is, for the purpose of discovering whether thefront edge otthe beam was in perfect vertical alignment along its entire extent and correcting any. deviation.

The general object or my present invention, therefore, isto provide a mechanism of the same general characteristics as the mechanism heretofore.disclosed butiwhich is so constructed that it may be used not only for horizontally leveling the longitudinal beams, rails or a series of horizontal ele ments, but mayalso be used {for vertically lining said beams, rails or horizontal elements, thus pern'iitting' the workman over- 1; aulingr the mechanism to perform in one opu-ation what has heretofore taken three opcrations.

A further object is to provide wire clamps which can be attached to and engaged with the roll stands of spinning machines to thus lmounted upon the roll beam, and noting whether the wire touches all of the roll stands atexactlv the same point, a correct lindication is given for the proper alignment both vertically and horizontally of the roll stands, and by employinga gauge of peculiar construction, which is illustrated,

described and claimed specifically in Patent No. 1,591,485, granted July 6, 1926,-and

{filed August 25,1925, any horizontal. or

vertical deviation of the roll beam maybe readily noted and corrected, and thus one of the objects attained by thepresent invention is to horizontally and'vertieally align not only the beam itself but the roll stands or any other'part which may be necessarj A still further object is to provide an anchoring clamp which i'slongitudini'illy slotted at a plurality of points for engagement with the free end of the wire and which is provided with a'guard' for preventing-any slippingsout of the wire from said slots, and in this connection to provide means preferiably attached to the lastnamed clamp whereby the degree of tension on the wire may be noted so that due allowance may bemade for any sag in the wire,it being remembered that the longitudinally extending railsand beams of aspinning machine are approximately forty-five feet long and that, therefore, some sag in the wire is bound to occur, and by noting the degree of tension to which the wire is subjected the amount of sag in the wire may be allowed for.

Another object is to provide a gauge adapted to be disposed in the forward roll hearingor seat of any of the intermediate roll stands betweenthe first and last stands. Still another object is to provide a reel base and anchoring base which is adapted to'be mounted upon the roller beam and secured by the lever screw which engage the forward end of the weighted lever which normally urges the front saddle of-the roll stand down ard. r

A further objectis to provide bases for the reel and for the anchoring devices which are so arranged as to permit the wire from the reel to be carried not only longitudinally along the machine but transversely thereof to thus align and level the machine transversely as well as longitudinally, and in this connection to provide a base having a pivoted clove-tailed member upon which the reel and upon which the anchoring device will slide, and to provide means whereby this dove-tailed member may be shifted through a quarter of a circle to thus shift the anchoring member into position either for longitudinal or transverse work.

A still further object is to provide means of the character described which, by clamping upon the roll stand, will permit the lining up of the stands, the beam both top and side, and which will do away with the heavy clamps and permit the use of a spirit level, and in this connection to provide a device of this character which may be used for lining up the spindle rail.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of the roll rail of a spinning machine and the roll stands thereon showing my leveling device applied thereto;

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the reel support;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the intermediate filler block;

Figure 4 is a face view of the reel;

Figure 5 is a section on the line 55 of Figure 4;

Figure 6 is an end elevation of the reel;

Figure 7 is an inner face view the reel;

Figure 8 is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 88 of Figure 6;

Figure 9 is a side elevation of the split washer;

Figure 10 is a top plan view support;

Figure 11 is a longitudinal section on the line 1111 of Figure 10;

Figure 12 is a section on the line 1212 of Figure 11;

Figure 13 is a sect-ion on the line 13--13 of Figure 11;

Figure 14 is a section through the roll stand supporting rail showing one of the roll stands in elevation and showing my improved gauge in section; V

Figure 15 shows a modified form of reel support capable of being engaged with the roll supporting beam by means of the usual lever screw;

Figure 16 is atop plan view of the base shown in Figure 15.

Referring to these drawings,it will be seen that I have illustrated my device as applied of the anchor to lining up the roll stands of a spinning frame, thougl'i it will be understood it may be used on a fly frame or indeed on large varieties of different mechanisms. In the drawings, A designates the roll stand supporting beam of a spinning frame, B the roll stands themselves, and C designates the thread board of the spinning frame. My lining device includes a reel, which is illustratedin some detail in Figure 5, and comprises the reel proper, designated 10, which is mounted upon a supporting plate 11. The

disk 10 has a stem 12 which extends out through a suitable bearing in the plate 11, and mounted upon this stem is the sleeve 13 having the usual crank handle 14.. The periphery of the disk 10 is grooved for the reception of the wire 15 which is attached to the disk in any suitable manner The plate 11 extends out over the periphery of the diskll) and the wire-passes through a slot in this plate.

The inner face of the disk 10 is formed with a circular series of ratchet notches 16,

and disposed in the plate 11 is a spring actuated pawl 17 having a tooth engaging in these notches and the pawl permitting the rotation of the reel disk 10 in one direction but preventing its rotation in the other unless the pawl is withdrawn against the action of the spring 18, which forces the pawl outward and against the reel disk 10. The pawl 17 has a later lly projecting pin 19 extending through a slot 20 whereby the pawl may be manually retracted to permit the initial unreeling of the wire 15.

Preferably, and in order to prevent the too rapid unreeling of the wire 15 which r. ould tend to cause the wire to overrun and thereby kink, I provide means to prevent the reel from too rapid movement, and while I do not wish to be limited. to any particular means for this purpose I have illustrated a washer 20 which is preferably of hard fiber or like material and a split washer 21. which. is slightly helical in form and disposed against the washer 20. Both of these waslr ers are disposed within av recess formed in V the inner face of the reel disk and. the action.

of course, is to restrain the movement of the disk 10 under the action of the handle 14.

The lower portion of the plate 11 is longitudinally extended and under face of the plate 11 is formed to provide a. dovetailed recess 23. Coacting with this reel'as described is a base, which in Figure 1- is illustrated as consisting of a short length. of angle iron 24 having upon its horizontal flange the upwardly projecting dovetailed rib 25 which is adapted to ei'igage in the (love tailed recess 23 so that the reel may he slid on and off the base, J

Preferably, and for a reason which will be later developed, the rib 25 is pivotedat its center as by screw 25 upon the upper k slot, the screw 25 extending into this'slot.

flange of the angle iron 24 and the upper face of this angle iron is formedwvith an arcuate recess 26 extending through an angle of 90, and there is a pin.26 upon the under face of the rib 25 which engages in this recess so that this rib 25 may be turned through a quarter revolution. The angle iron 24 in Figure 1 is mounted upon a verticalplate 27 by means of a clamp screw 23 which passes through a slot29 formed in the vertical flange of the angle iron 24, the plate having an outwardly projecting lug 30 which has a width approximately that of the slot 29 but a length less than that of thi washer is disposed between the head of the screw and the plate 24, and by turning up the screw the plate may be clamped in any vertically adjusted position, the lug 30 preventing the plate 24 from rotating upon the screw but permitting the plate to be vertically adjusted.

Extending from the plate 27'is an arm 31, the upper face of which isflush with the up per face ofthe plate 27 and the inner end of which is reinforced by an arcuate lug or thickened portion 32. The outer end ofthis arm 31 has a downwardly extending flange or lug 33 through which passes a clamp screw 34. The arm 31 .is semi-circular in cross section and is adapted to fit within the roll seat 5 of a roll stand B, as illustratedin Figure 1, and-the distance between the thickcnedportion 32 an'dtheend of the screw 34 is equalto the width of the roll stand at this point so that vthe member may be seated within theseat Z) on the roll stand and the screw 34 turned up to thereby securely clampthis reel supporting base upon the roll stand with the axis of the upper face of the arm 231 coincident with the axis of the bearmg At the opposite end ofthe beam A, or rather on the rollstand at the opposite end of this beam, thereis mountedv a rail anchorinc means disclosed in Figure'll and com prising a roll stand clamping member and an anchoring plate. As illustrated, the roll stand clamping member comprises a vertical plate35 to which is detachably connected the arm 36. Preferably, and as illustrated in Figure 10, the plate 35 has an outwardly projecting flange 37 which is formed with a recess for'the reception of1the inner end of the arm 36 and the end of this recess is countersunk, as at 38, and the end of the arm isjformed with a flange 39'fitting in this countersunk portion and the arm, is held in place by means of a screw v40. This arm 36 has the form of the arm 31 and is, therefore,

arm 36 disposed in the-forward roll seatb.

Attached to this clamp supporting plate "35 is an angle iron 41 formed uponits hori- "zontal face with a longitudinallyextending slot 42 and upon its vertical flange witlrthe verticalslot 43. The plate 35 is provided with two pins 44 arrangedin vertical align ment and adapted to extend-into the slot 43 and act precisely similar tothe lug 30, and also extending from the plate 35 and through the slot 43 is a clamp screw 45 which .is

adapted to be'turned home so as to clamp the angle iron 41in its adjusted position upon theplate 35. Resting uponthe upper face of the plate 41 is the anchoring member 46 which is rectangular in form and provided with-a plurality of'kerfs 47, thebottoms of which extend downward and outward, asindicated in Figure 11,'th'ese kerfs being of a Width large enoughto receivethe wire 15. The end of this plate is formed with a transverse flange or lip 48 and the extremity ofthe wire has a head, loop or notch which may be engaged beneath this lip to thus firmly anchor the 'free-extremity of the wire. The wire isheld in place in the ker'fs 48 by means of a turn button or equivalent device 48*.

It will be seen that with the mechanism heretofore described the reel support and" the. anchor support may be clamped in position on the -roll stands and held with the upper faces of the arms 31 or 36 disposed at any desiredinclination but always centered within the bearings of the roll standsso that a longitudinal line drawn alongthe upper facesof these arms will be coincident with the common axis of the forward bearparticularly if the roll stand bearings are in proper alignment, and it will be obvious that this mechanism maybe used on any make of roll stands, whether these extend straight upward or upward and forward orforward and rearward.

Preferably a tension indicating member will be used with the anchoring clamp stand, as will be later described. Used in connection with the wire supporting and tensioning device whiehl have described is a gauge which forms the subject-matter of'my'Patent'No. 1,591,485. Thisgauge is fully described in detail in my co-pending application and there is no necessity, therefore, of detailing the construction in the present case I but it is suificient to say that the gauge comprises a base 50 having mounted thereon a slide 51 which carries a vertical standard 52 formed in two vertically adjustable sections, the faces of these sections being graduated in thirty-seconds of an inch by horizontal graduations, the upper end of the standard being right angularly bent, as at 53, and also graduated longitudinally, this angular portion 53 of the standard carrying upon it a vertically disposed plate 5% whose outer and inner surfaces are both transversely graduated in thirty-seconds of an inch. The standard 52, as before remarked, is formed in two sections and these sections are adjustable upon each other so as to'increase or decrease the height of the standard from the base and the standard itself is slidably mounted upon the base 50. The forward end of the base 50 is formed with a downwardly extending, relatively thin lug 55 which is adapted to engage in the crack or space whichis always found between the inner edge of the thread board and the outer face of the roll supporting rail. This gauge is made of relatively heavy material, suffi ciently heavy to be rigid, except the lug 55 which is, of course, thin and the two sections of the vertical portion of the gauge are engaged with each other in adjusted positions by means of a set screw and the standard 52v is held upon the base 50 in adjusted position by means of a set screw or like equivalent device.

This gauge may be used in connection with the wire 15 supported on the roll stands by engaging the lug in the crack between the guide board and roll beam, then adjusting the standard 52 upon the base 50 and adjusttingthe height of the standard 52 so as to bring any desired graduation on either the horizontal portion 53, the face of the standard 52 or the plate 5st in coincidence with the wire as it supported on the end roll stands and then fastening the parts so that they cannot move and shifting the gauge longitudinally and observing the position of the .wire with reference to the graduations.

Thus, for instance, if the beam is perfectly true both horizontally and vertically the wire will always strike exact] y the same graduation, on the gauge as the gauge is shifted along the beam but, on the contrary, if the beam deviates vertically from a truly horizontal position at any one point, the wire will not be coincident with the same gradu ation on. the gauge but will be either above or below the graduation with which it should correlate and the amount of this deviation 5 may be read upon the gauge, and thus it will be seen exactly how far the beam is either sunk atanyparticular point or elevated at any particular point and the proper adjustment may be made by means of the usual adjusting screws attached to the legs of the frame or by any other means. Likewise, if the beam is in vertical alignment throughout its length the wire will read upon one single horizontal graduation as the gauge is shifted from one end of the beam to the other, but if the beam should not be longitudinally aligned then the wire will shift away from a vertical portion of the gauge or with reference to one of the graduations on the portion 53 or will bear acutely against a vertical face of the gauge, and by adjusting the gauge or reading the graduations immediately below the wire the amount of the deviation from vertical alignment may be readily seen and proper correction made.

Thus it will be seen that by clamping the wire upon the roll stands that the device may be used for lining up the stands and the top and side of the beam. Furthermore, by using the wire in this manner it is possible to gauge the true horizontality of the entire machine for the reason that a level D such as illustrated in the drawings may be hung upon this wire and shifted along this wire from one end to the other of the machine and the level will indicate whether the wire is horizontal and, of course, after the machine has been properlyadjusted so that its parts are parellel to the wire, it will indicate whether the machine is horizontal.

This construction further permits the device to be used for lining up the spindle rail of the machine if desired, though bymy system of lining and leveling the machine through the use of a wire extending through the bearings of the roll stands it is not necessary to line up the spindle rail. The device permits the lining up of the spindle rail, however, if desired. This may be done by clamping the rail supporting member upon one end of the spindle rail and the anchor plate, supporting member upon the,

other end of the spindle rail. The anchor plate 46 is made so that it may he turned upon the horizontal flange of the member 41 into a position at right angles to the clamp ing arm 36. viding the anchoring plate 46 with a stud bolt 46 which passes through the slot 42. By loosening the nut on the stud bolt the plate 46 may be shifted and rotated a quarter turn and then again engaged with the flange of the member 41. The plate 46 has a lip L6 which engages over the edge of the horizontal flange of member 41 in either position of the anchor plate. Thus it will be seen the clamping arm may be extended across the rail and engaged by means of the screw 40 and the slots 47 will extend parallel to the end of the rail. The reel supporting member is also disposed at right angles to the arm 31 by reason of the fact This is accomplished by pro-,

that the dove-tailed lug 25 is. rotatable through a quarter of a revolution, as here tofore described, so that the reel may be so disposed that the wire 15 extends at right angles tothe clamping arm 31.

' I do not wish to be limited to clamping this wire to the rail stands, though this I regard as-a preferable point for clamping the wire in order to secure the proper adjustment of the rail stands, the stand supporting beam, etc, but in Figure 15 I illustrate a base 56 adapted to be used under certain circumstances in connection with the reel which has been illustrated. This base 56 is provided on its front edge with a downwardly extending, relatively thin flange or plate 57 adapted to engage in the crack between the thread board and the roll beam and. thereby held. always at a definite. distance from the forward edge of the roll beam, this plate or base having the upward ly extending dove-tailed rib 58 adapted to engage in the dove-tailed recess 23 in the lower face of the reel support. This base is longitudinally slotted, as at 59, the slot passing through the rib 58 and the slot permitting the engagement of this base by means ofthe usual lever screw E of the machine. The anehor plate is mounted. in the same manner upon the face of theroll sup porting beam'by means of the adjacent lever screw and the wire on the reel may thus be used for the purpose oftruing up or aligning both vertically and horizontally the top of the beam.

lVhile in many instances it is not necessary, yet under some circumstances it would be well to provide means wherebythe tension on the wire 15 may be indicated or exactly measured so that the sag of the wire for a certain number of feet with the wire under a certain degree of tension may be allowed for. To this end I may attach to the anchoring device a tension measuring scale with which the wire 15 may be connected so that the strain upon the wire is clearly indicated. Thus in Figure 11, I have illustrated the arm 36 as enclosing a spring 60, the upper face of the arm 36 being slotted and there being a slide 61 movable along its upper face and operatively engaged by said spring, this slide carrying upon it a pair of wire clamps 62 by which the wire may be engaged without injuring the wire. The face of the arm 36 may be calibrated so that the position of the slide 61 may be read thereon and thus the tension indicated.

In this use of the device, the wire will be engaged in one of the slots or kerfs 48 in the usual manner, then whatever slack there is in the wire may be taken up and the wire rendered fairly taut and then the clamp 62 engaged with the wire, the extremity of the wire would then be released from its engagement with the slot and the strain upon the wire measured on the graduated face of the arm 36, and then reference would be made to a table which wouldaccompany the mechanism, which table would give the amount of sag for a wire stretching fortyfive feet or any desirednumber of. feet under strain of so many pounds and allowance conldbe made for this sag.

being disposed within the arm 36, I do not wish to be limited to this as many modifications might be made in this portion ofv the mechanism without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claims. Preferably the arm 36' is detachable from the plate 35 so thattheen- VVhileI have illustrated the spring as.

tire anchoring device need not be thrown aside in case this arm 36 should be broken,

off, as it is somewhatliable to. be. It willbe seen that the reel may be readily removed from its engagement with its base so thatthe reel and the base are rendered more portable and the reel may be readily carried in the pocket. It is obvious that various bases might be formed with a dove-tailed rib, with which various bases one reel could be engaged. I

One of the objects in having the plate 25 rotatable through a quarter of a circle and for permitting the anchor plate t6 to be disposed at right angles to its normal position is to permit these parts to be used in leveling the spinning mechanism transversely. Thus many times it is not necessary to release the. reelsupporting base from its engagement with the spinning frame but only necessary to withdraw the reel to rotate the dove-tailed rib a quarter of a turn so that it and the side face to be lined up and leveled simultaneously without any changing of the indicating wire. By the old way of testing these parts, a wire or cord was stretched I tightly along the roll stands and along the stand supporting beam to test the horizontality and then test the vertical alignment of the beam and the roll stands, and if this was impossible due to the interference of the guide board or other parts, the test had to be made on the spindle rail.

lVhile I have illustrated certain details of construction and arrangement of parts which I have found particularly effective in -member having a face,

actual practice, I do not wish to be limited to this as it is obvious that many changes might be made in these details without departing from the spirit of the inventionas defined in the appended claims. Furthermore, I do not wish to be limited to the use of this mechanism in connectlon with levelmg up and ahgning spinning frames or machines, as it is capable of use with fly termining the tension under which the wire is placed.

2. Means for lining and leveling machinery comprising a pair of clamps, a wire, a reel with which one end of the wire is connected, the reel being detachably connected to the clamp, and means on the other clamp whereby the end of the wire may be engaged comprising an anchoring member having a slot in which the end of the wire may be placed.

3. Means for leveling and lining machinery comprising a pair of clamps, each having a base, and a member mounted on the base for rotation through a quarter of a circle, a reel mounted upon the member on one base, a wire attached to the reel, and a wire anchor mounted upon the rotatable member on the other base and having means for detachably engagingthe end of the wire.

a. Means for lining and leveling machinery including a clamp, a wire reel, awire mounted thereon, the reel and the clamp having, one a dove-tailed rib mounted for rotation through a quarter circle and the other having a recess engaging said rib.

5. litleans for lining and leveling machin ery including a reel comprising a supporting a shaft passing through the supporting member, a peripher- I ally grooved disk mounted upon the shaft and rotatable therewith, the disk being recessed upon the face confronting the face of said supporting member, the disk being provided with a series of ratchet notches, a pawl engaging said ratchet notches to thereby hold the disk under strain, and friction means disposed between the disk and the supporting member for yieldingly resisting free r0ta tion of the disk.

6. In means for lining and leveling machincry, the combination with a pair of clamps, a wire reel mounted upon one of the clamps, a wire carried thereby, and an anchoring member mounted upon the other of said clamps and with which the end of the wire is adapted to be opcratively engaged, of a gauge shiftable along the machine between the reel supporting clamp and the anchor supporting clamp and having graduated horizontal and vertical portions.

7. Means for lining and leveling spinning machines comprising a pair of clamps, each clamp including .a vertically disposed plate having a horizontally disposed arm semicircular in cross section and adapted to lie within the roll bearing of a roll stand and having means for clamping it therein, an angular bracket mountedupon said plate for Vertical adjustment, a wire reel detachably carried upon the angular bracket of one clamp, a wire anchoring member carried upon the bracket of the other clamp, and a wire carried by the reel, the reel and anchoring member being adapted to support the wire in line with the longitudinal axis of and resting upon the upper face of each of said arms.

8. Means for lining and leveling spinning machinery including a pair of clamps adapted to engage two separated roll stands of a spinning machine, a wire adapted to be engaged at its ends with said clamps and supported thereby in alignment with certain like portions of the two roll stands, and an intermediate member adapted to be disposed in connection with the like portion of intermediate roll stands and across which said wires shall pass if the roll stands are in line.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

ALBERT M. GUILLET. 

